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Jan 22, 2025 | 
chinafile.com | Yaqiu Wang
In online spaces where Chinese students and researchers congregate, complaints about the state of scientific research in China abound.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
thediplomat.com | Yaqiu Wang
On January 10, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on TikTok’s bid to block a federal law requiring the video-sharing application’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell its U.S. operations or risk a full ban in the country. Many U.S. lawmakers and intelligence officials, as well as Chinese democracy advocates, argue that the Chinese government could exploit TikTok to spy on Americans, spread pro-Beijing propaganda, or interfere in U.S. elections.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
thediplomat.com | Yaqiu Wang
The election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency has raised concerns among many who care about human rights and democracy in China and around the world. As Freedom House has documented, the returning president has a record of antidemocratic and anti-human rights behavior and rhetoric, and his first administration featured a mixture of gains and missteps in its China policy.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
thediplomat.com | Yaqiu Wang
Last week, the Chinese government unveiled a massive stimulus package intended to pull the country’s economy out of its protracted slump. The Chinese stock market responded to the planned measures, which included interest-rate cuts, smaller down payments for mortgages, and more liquidity for banks, with the largest single-week jump since 2008.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
tribunecontentagency.com | Yaqiu Wang
On September 3, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Linda Sun, a former top aide to New York Governor Kathy Hochul and former Governor Andrew Cuomo, had been charged with acting as an agent of the Chinese government. A few weeks earlier, in two separate cases, U.S. authorities convicted Chinese dissident Wang Shujun and charged another, Tang Yuanjun, for spying on the overseas Chinese pro-democracy community on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
thediplomat.com | Yaqiu Wang
On September 3, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Linda Sun, a former top aide to New York Governor Kathy Hochul and former Governor Andrew Cuomo, had been charged with acting as an agent of the Chinese government. A few weeks earlier, in two separate cases, U.S. authorities convicted Chinese dissident Wang Shujun and charged another, Tang Yuanjun, for spying on the overseas Chinese pro-democracy community on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
tribunecontentagency.com | Yaqiu Wang
Last week, Paris kicked off the 2024 Summer Olympics with a rain-soaked but dazzling opening ceremony. Since their inception more than a century ago, the modern Olympic Games have become one of the world’s most popular sports and entertainment events. They are especially important in China, where the accumulation of Olympic medals by Chinese athletes is closely tied to a sense of national strength.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
thediplomat.com | Yaqiu Wang
Last week, Paris kicked off the 2024 Summer Olympics with a rain-soaked but dazzling opening ceremony. Since their inception more than a century ago, the modern Olympic Games have become one of the world’s most popular sports and entertainment events. They are especially important in China, where the accumulation of Olympic medals by Chinese athletes is closely tied to a sense of national strength.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
thediplomat.com | Yaqiu Wang
“China is widely acknowledged as one of the safest countries in the world,” a spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said during a press conference on Tuesday, in response to an attack in which a Chinese man stabbed a Japanese woman and her child at a bus stop in southeastern Jiangsu Province. The official comment was identical to one made earlier this month in response to another such attack, in which a Chinese man stabbed four Americans in northeastern Jilin Province.
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Jun 2, 2024 | 
thediplomat.com | Yaqiu Wang
On Tuesday, Hong Kong authorities announced that they had arrested six people for posting “seditious” messages on social media. According to local media reports, those arrested include Chow Hang-tung, a prominent human rights lawyer who was already behind bars, and the posts in question concerned the commemoration of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
